On the second day, today is the Chang Dynasty, and the important ministers above the fifth rank gather in the Wende Palace.

Not long after Li Zhongyi sat down, he heard the words of the chamberlain, and His Royal Highness the Queen Mother and the Crown Prince arrived.

The so-called Chang Dynasty, in fact, is just a formality, no one would be stupid enough to cross the political hall and report the situation directly to the queen.

Therefore, Empress Fu and Chai Zongxun just showed their faces, and after accepting the worship of the ministers, they quickly left the palace.

The important ministers retreated, and the ministers on duty today rode back to the government hall to work.

According to Fan Qian's arrangement, it was Wei Renpu's turn to be on duty in the hall today, and Li Zhongyi was in the inner room of the official hall, drinking tea, reading idle books, and enjoying himself.

The two officials outside the hall were doing the registration work on the official documents, and then wrote out the abridgement and reported it to Li Zhongyi's desk.

Li Zhongyi is very adaptable to this work mode, isn't the official outside Li Zhongyi's full-time secretary? It's just that Li Zhongyi originally had only one secretary, but now there are as many as eight, which is really amazing.

After drinking a few cups of tea and warming up, Li Zhongyi picked up the pen and began to review the official documents.

According to the habits of his previous work, Li Zhongyi first read the abridgements written by the officials after the hall as usual, felt that the official documents were important, and then opened them and read them carefully.

In the past, when Li Zhongyi was participating in political affairs, because he did not sign a detainee or sit on duty, although he had no real power, he was also leisurely.

Today, Li Zhongyi held the pen in his hand, and for two hours in a row, he never had the opportunity to put down the wolf in his hand.

There was a chief in the ministry, Ding Wei, who didn't even report his leave, and directly abandoned India and left Beijing. went home and went to mourn.

Li Zhongyi carefully read the opinions of the official book, to the effect that although it violated the regulations of the imperial court. But filial piety can be felt, and it seems forgivable?

There are personnel issues involved. Li Zhongyi was too lazy to mix blindly, and Wei Renpu, who was on duty today, did not sign the opinion, so he simply put this official document aside, and then reviewed the next one.

Raise the Changchun Guangong Envoy, hit the report that the Changchun Guanguan has been in disrepair for a long time, and when it rained heavily last month, the main hall almost collapsed. Please allocate 10,000 yuan to renovate and renovate.

Well, when it comes to asking for money, Li Zhongyi doesn't want to provoke it. Go back to your own home, find your own mother, the guy who has the ability to get through the sky, please, go to Fan Zhen to approve the money, the old man is afraid of trouble.

Li Zhongyi grinds foreign workers here. Playing Tai Chi, playing is fun, playing chic and free, and playing is experienced.

Before. In order to be promoted to the position of dean normally, Vice President Li has been pretending to be stupid and following the principle of Sanfan. In the end, he successfully ascended to the position.

If it weren't for the car accident, Li Zhongyi would have reason to believe it. His career path will never end with the vice minister-level dean.

So three whatevers. In fact, it is very simple: whatever the dean advocates, he supports; Whatever the dean opposes, he opposes; All the centrists, he has to do his best to win them over.

Isn't playing politics just figuring out who is on your side, who will resolutely oppose you, and who needs to find ways to entrap you?

The rest of the ministers in the political hall are only in charge of national affairs, and Li Zhongyi also has Kaifeng Yin in his hands, and there is still a mess over there.

In two hours, Li Zhongyi read more than 100,000 words of official documents, most of which were personnel and financial issues. There are also some trivial things, mainly related to etiquette, and Li Zhongyi doesn't know much about the Tao inside, so he simply put it aside together.

As a deputy, if you want to mess around, you can learn from Li Zhongyi's chic attitude, this so-called matter is not about yourself, and it hangs high. If he doesn't sign, he won't be responsible, let him flood, and Li Xianggong will stand still.

After Li Zhongyi finished his work, he put down the wolf hair in his hand, raised his voice and called the officials in the outer hall in, and instructed, "Take it." ”

This post-hall official's surname is Ma, his name is Garin, and he has been mixed in the political hall for nine years, and he is still a small post-hall official.

Ma Jialin looked at the official document that Li Zhongyi had reviewed and wondered, he wrote an abridgement, and naturally knew that today's official document either involved money, or the promotion and demotion of officials below the sixth grade.

Such an important matter, Li Xianggong completed the approval in just two hours? The more Magalin thought about it, the more he felt a little incomprehensible.

However, since Xiao Li Xiang stayed on the bus, how dare Ma Jialin say half a word, just picked up the official document and left.

After Ma Jialin came out of the inner room, he saw that his colleagues were not there, and he became curious for a moment, so he looked through the official documents approved by Li Zhongyi.

I don't know if I don't know this, but I was startled when I saw it, and Ma Jialin found that there were many official documents, and Xiao Li Xianggong didn't approve a word.

Just when Magalin was a little flustered, the footsteps of his colleagues, from far and near, clearly came into his ears.

Magalin hurriedly sat upright, put his pen in his hand, and pretended to be working hard, so as not to let people know that he had broken the rules.

There are so many rules in the government hall that even the officials who are responsible for writing the abridgements are not qualified to look at the specific instructions of the ministers.

This is naturally an institutional arrangement of secrecy, but it is full of loopholes and flaws!

When his colleague saw the pile of official documents on the table, he asked Ma Garin: "Have you read all the official documents?" ”

Magarin buried his head, pinched his pen, and pretended to write an abridgement seriously, but only nodded slightly, snorted through his nose, but did not speak.

The colleague misunderstood, but he didn't care too much, so he picked up the official document that Li Zhongyi had read, stepped out of the door, and handed it back to Wei Xianggong.

In addition to the prime minister, even if there is a difference in title, the status of the ministers in the government hall is actually the same.

However, in actual operation, the old ministers who have been in power for many years and the new ministers who have just entered the government are all very different from each other in terms of prestige and political experience.

Li Zhongyi doesn't want to take power, how can he return the official documents, to put it bluntly, he doesn't want to take advantage of it, nor does he want to cause trouble.

Wei Renpu has been waiting for Li Zhongyi to approve the official document, he just wants to see what kind of mentality this kid has.

Fan Zhen is in the Changbai class, but he has just entered the palace and has not come back yet. Wei Renpu is the old minister in the hall, and he arranged for someone to send the official document to Li Zhongyi first, and then return it to his own hands.

Wei Renpu opened the official document carefully and flipped through several copies. Li Zhongyi didn't approve a word. Wei Renpu was a little reluctant, and flipped through more than 20 official documents involving money and hats in a row. Sure enough, it was all blank.

"Hehe, good boy!" Wei Renpu put down the official paper. Suddenly smiling, he took out an official document from the drawer, put it in his sleeve, and then sat back in his chair.

During lunch, Li Yunxiao walked into the inner room and gently placed two red lacquer food boxes on the kang table.

Li Zhongyi has a habit that he only needs to eat out. Only eat the meals sent by Li Yunxiao. In addition, Li Zhongyi would rather be hungry than eat food of unknown origin.

The meals were all made by Tang Shuyi himself, and Li Yunxiao escorted the whole process, and Li Zhongyi ate both refreshingly and at ease.

Li Zhongyi walked over and couldn't help but smile when he saw the food that Li Yunxiao put on the table, it was all his favorite food.

A dish of brine dripping with sesame oil in the wind. A plate of scrambled eggs with minced meat, a plate of roasted tofu, a plate of stir-fried white siad with lard residue, and a small pot of mutton stewed radish. Take out a bowl of chicken soup with mung bean vermicelli.

Li Zhongyi didn't eat much in the morning, and he was really hungry this time, so he had chicken soup. After eating two large bowls of white rice, I put down my chopsticks.

After wiping your lips with a handkerchief. Li Zhongyi saw that there was still a lot of food left, so he greeted Li Yunxiao with a smile: "Don't waste it." It's all yours. ”

If the master doesn't put down the chopsticks, how dare the servant serve a bowl to eat? Li Yunxiao must be hungry.

Li Yunxiao has been by Li Zhongyi's side for a long time, and the master and servant have a very tacit understanding.

Seeing that Li Zhongyi spoke, Li Yunxiao didn't fake politeness, picked up the chopsticks that Li Zhongyi had eaten, served the meal himself, and began to gobble up.

As a famous doctor in two lifetimes, Li Zhongyi naturally knows, not to mention health preservation, if you don't want to have a big belly, you can't go for a walk immediately after dinner, let alone lie down on the spot.

Li Zhongyi sat leisurely at the desk and picked up a H book written by an unknown genius, called "The Secret History of the Spring Boudoir".

The book tells the story of a scholar who fell into the first place, met the daughter-in-law of an official family by chance, and tried his best to seduce her.

If the story ends here, Li Zhongyi doesn't think there's anything wrong, the problem is that the scholar is actually a black-hearted prodigal, he took a woman's body, and that's it, because of lack of money, he sold the woman who loved him into Goolan Yuan.

Well, the story is written with twists and turns, heart-wrenching, sad and poignant, and it hasn't been finished yet.

Since Li Zhongyi didn't want to take power, he was idle anyway, but he found a good way to have fun.

After reading H Book for about a quarter of an hour, Li Zhongyi got up, walked out of the official hall, and paced into the courtyard of the political affairs hall.

Li Zhongyi walked around the bamboo forest by the wall, and just after half a circle, he saw Wei Renpu with his hands behind his back, and he was actually taking a walk to eat.

Since he met, Li Zhongyi's qualifications are shallow, so he smiled and said hello first: "Wei Xianggong, what about eating?" ”

The two have equal status, but their qualifications are different, Li Zhongyi greeted him casually, thinking that Wei Renpu was just perfunctory and would be separated.

Who would have thought that Wei Renpu would actually walk towards him and say with a smile: "No blame, how is it, are you still adapting?" ”

Li Zhongyi smiled indifferently and said politely: "I don't understand a lot, and I'm planning to ask the old-timers for advice." ”

This was originally a polite remark, but to Li Zhongyi's surprise, Wei Renpu actually hit a snake and climbed up along the pole.

Wei Renpu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The old man is a few years old, and he has been mixing for a long time, but he also has some experience." ”

Li Zhongyi felt that something was wrong, and immediately raised his vigilance, and said quietly: "The old-timers are willing to advise, but they can't ask for it." ”

Wei Renpu waved his hand and made a gesture of please, and took the lead in walking towards the quiet place, Li Zhongyi understood at a glance that there must be something wrong with this duke.

The two walked one after the other, walking into a no-man's land deep in the bamboo forest, Wei Renpu stopped, turned around, looked at Li Zhongyi with a smile, and pretended to complain: "No blame, don't you want to have trouble with the old man?" ”

Li Zhongyi thought to himself, this is always an old fox with no bones, and at the beginning, the two of them secretly became allies who relied on each other. However, at the critical moment, when Li Zhongyi was about to be unlucky, Wei Renpu, who was not slippery, didn't even fart half a fart, and watched Li Zhongyi sit on wax.

If it weren't for Li Zhongyi, who came with rich experience in political struggle, he would have dealt with it properly. I'm afraid that in that crisis, he has already planted the altar of power.

"Where did Wei Xianggong say? How dare you get old and have trouble with you? Li Zhongyi accurately judged that this public must be to go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. I want to ask him for help.

To put it mildly, Li Zhongyi just wants to wait quietly for Chai Rong to burp now. By the way, I rode Chai Yuniang safely, and I didn't want to worry about anything else.

If you don't want to, you're just right. Li Zhongyi sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and looked at what Wei Renpu wanted to do, and how much price he planned to pay?

Since the horror of the dormitory, Li Zhongyi's entire outlook on life, including his mentality, has undergone earth-shaking and surprising changes.

People who have "died" once, their mentality can still maintain the original normal, but I'm afraid that even the gods can't do it, right?

Wei Renpu also knew. Last time, he abandoned Li Zhongyi and didn't speak out to support, which was really inauthentic.

However, Wei Renpu also has his own difficulties, the question is, who doesn't have difficulties?

Seeing that Wei Renpu was a little embarrassed, Li Zhongyi Yun smiled lightly and said, "It's not very good to remember a lot of things." Sleep and forget about it. "It's half a ladder to facilitate Wei Renpu's downhill climb.

Although Wei Renpu was sleek, he was not to the extent of being shameless. He snorted and said with a smile: "The old man seems to have heard someone talk about it, and the second brother should be studying in the Guozi Prison, right?" ”

didn't wait for Li Zhongyi to respond. Wei Renpu directly explained what he meant: "There are many talents in the Guozi Prison, and my younger brother studies very hard. This time, Enko must have a lot of hope for high school. ”

Wei Renpu opened his mouth. gave a great gift, and if Li Zhongyi hadn't heard it with his own ears, he almost suspected that his own ears had heard it wrong.

When it comes to the lofty status of Li Zhongyi and Wei Renpu, who are extremely popular ministers, there is no need to say a lot of words, and each other will understand each other's intentions.

Li Zhonghao does not work hard in reading, whether his talent is outstanding, how can Li Zhongyi, who is a brother, not know?

Wei Renpu deliberately took Li Zhonghao out to talk about things, which was actually hinting at him, so that his younger brother had great hope for high school in this scientific examination.

Li Zhongyi deliberately pretended to be stupid, and sighed: "My family's Erlang, there are still big deficiencies in learning." After leaving Beijing for a long time, I don't know how much progress he has made. ”

Wei Renpu raised his eyebrows, somewhat unhappy in his heart, daring to be affectionate, Li Zhongyi regarded this matter as a compensation for the destruction of the alliance by Comrade Wei at the beginning.

Although Li Zhongyi did not say it explicitly, he was hinting at Wei Renpu that if he wanted to cooperate again, he must set up another exciting trading condition.

After all, Wei Renpu is an old-fashioned politician, and the displeasure in his heart has been left behind in the blink of an eye.

At this time, Li Zhongyi is already a real prime minister, even if he can't do anything, if he wants to spoil Wei Renpu's good deeds, it won't take much effort, not to mention that it is easy.

When Wei Renpu thought of the unangry sons in his family, he hated it so much that his teeth hurt, but, there was no way, who let his family have settled in the capital?

Kaifeng Mansion is not only the imperial capital, but also the largest mansion in the world, because of the large population, the number of township tributes set aside is naturally a lot.

The third son of the Wei family is the only promising reading seed of the old Wei family. Although he is a nerd, as long as Wei Renpu does not die, he can also teach from the side and pull him to become a talent.

The imperial court has not held an imperial examination for many years, and Wei Renpu feels that this time, the opportunity cannot be lost, and it will not come again.

Of course, with the respect of the prime minister of Comrade Wei, the children of the Wei family, if they want to win the official position in the shade, they are all a lot higher than others.

The problem is that if there is no good opportunity for the official position obtained by Enyin, once the old Wei Xi goes, it will inevitably be very difficult to be promoted.

Through the Kode officials, including the teacher, classmates, and in the same year, how much of a network of relationships can be weaved, Wei Renpu, the old prime minister for many years, will not be unclear.

The son of the Wei family can only rely on the lackeys of the Wei family to support the door in the future, which is a loser that Comrade Wei absolutely cannot tolerate.

God knows when the next imperial examination will be?

Therefore, Wei Renpu let out an old face, and also sought the understanding of Li Zhongyi, Kaifeng Yin, and reached a consensus on exchanging benefits.

After Li Zhongyi understood Wei Renpu's intention, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, pity the parents of the world!

Parents should not only provide their children with good food and drink, good health, and success in reading. When the children grow up, the parents have to help the operation and strive to find a good job with a high starting point.

For thousands of years, it has been an official-based society. The so-called good job, now I am a Zhongjin Shi, enter the Hanlin Academy, and become the prime minister in the future.

A thousand years later. It is to take the official ape and serve a golden job. Sharpen your head and climb up, striving to be a hand with abundant resources. The big leader who is in charge of countless bureaucrats.

Li Zhongyi did not have much disgust at cheating in the imperial examination, because when he was in college, he would also choose to make cheat sheets for certain subjects that required rote memorization but were useless.

In addition, today's imperial examination system is full of loopholes. The first one is. The lack of a strict system of obfuscation and transcription has led to a huge amount of room for cheating.

It is precisely because of this that Wei Renpu must do the work of Li Zhongyi to ensure that his family's San Lang can smoothly become the township tribute of the capital.

Now the question is, Lao Wei's ball is kicked over, what kind of benefits does Li Zhongyi need?

Standing in Li Zhongyi's position, in fact, it can be changed or not. The main reason is that he does not have many civilian officials at hand to promote.

However, Wei Renpu has taken the initiative to show goodwill. I have mustered up enough courage. If Li Zhongyi doesn't give the slightest affection, in the future, there will definitely be one more fierce opponent.

Multiple friends, multiple paths. Multiple enemies and multiple walls, what Li Zhongyi can do easily. Why do you insist on offending Lao Wei to death?

"The government government sentenced Liu to the left, which can be described as a capable official. But he hasn't been very ambitious. Li Zhongyi vaguely offered the price.

Wei Renpu's heart was suddenly relieved, as long as Li Zhongyi was willing to make an offer, the deal had great hope of success.

"Hehe, no blame, when you are free, help the old man teach San Lang and let him learn to lead the soldiers to fight." Wei Renpu looked at Li Zhongyi with a smile, although he didn't mention it at all, how to promote Liu Jinshan, everything was silent.

The chance encounter between Li Zhongyi and Wei Renpu was normal, and the time was so short that no one noticed it.

In fact, the political transactions between big people do not need to set up wine, set up banquets, or send beautiful women, which are all unpopular methods.

As long as the benefits are sufficient, it doesn't matter what you eat, drink, or play!

With power, are you afraid that you will not have money? With power, even if you are not lustful, are you worried that your subordinates will not send beauties into the cave room?

When a real big man does private affairs, he pays attention to not only getting things done, but also not spreading bad rumors.

They are all face-saving ministers, and it is impossible to be like a low-grade petty official, three melons and two dates, and they have to fight to die and live, so bluntly.

Li Zhongyi is not worried at all, Lao Wei will break the contract this time, and the time for the government test is still early.

According to the order hinted by the two just now, Liu Jinshan was promoted first, and Zhongxiang Gong, the third son of the Wei family, was behind.

In other words, Li Zhongyi's current method is called, if you don't see a rabbit, you don't scatter an eagle, and if you don't see a devil, you don't pull the string.

As for whether Li Zhonghao won the Zhongjin Shi exam, Li Zhongyi actually didn't care.

Let's talk about him from afar, Zhao Pu is just a staff officer, after the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, he has won the trust of Zhao Laoer, and he can still be alone for several years.

The reason why Wei Renpu is in a hurry is because his protégé is old, he doesn't have a fuel-efficient lamp, and he doesn't have an important minister who can really stand up to the table.

If the old Wei family wants to continue to prosper, at the critical moment, only his own family can be relied on.

Wei Renpu saw Li Zhongyi's perfunctory and approved official documents, and naturally understood in his heart that he had to go in person to negotiate terms with Li Zhongyi and reach a satisfactory deal.

If you don't have desire, you're just right, doesn't the old prime minister understand this truth?

Wei Renpu had already walked away, and Li Zhongyi still walked around the bamboo forest for half an hour according to his usual habits, and then returned to his official hall.

Li Zhongyi drank a few sips of hot tea, rested on the kang for half an hour, and after recuperating his spirits, he sat down at the desk and continued to read the H book.

The official documents from all walks of life, flowing like water, were continuously handed in, and then quickly sent out, Li Zhongyi was on duty on the first day, and there were a lot of affairs.

At about half past three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Zhongyi stood up, stretched his uncivilized waist, and instructed Li Yunxiao: "Go back to the palace!" ”

Li Zhongyi, who is in a high position, is qualified to skip work occasionally, but Kaifeng Mansion is not an ordinary small place after all, and the affairs are extremely complicated.

The backlog of official documents on the side of the government office is approved early and late, and after all, Li Zhongyi must read it in person, so that it can be counted, and others cannot do it for him.

After Li Zhongyi boarded the car, the prime minister's guard of honor lined up along the royal street, and drove towards the Kaifeng Mansion with great fanfare.

In the carriage, Li Zhongyi leaned on Caijiao's lap and tasted the grapes she had peeled comfortably.

Li Zhongyi changed to a more comfortable posture and said to Caijiao with a smile: "Ming'er, I will send someone to Beizhuang to bring your family back." ”

He is in a good mood today, and he hopes that the people around him will also be happy.

Who knows, Caijiao shook her head slightly and whispered: "Brother-in-law, the slave is a little afraid of the two sisters. ”

Li Zhongyi blinked, his mood was more comfortable, and the innocent and pure Caijiao was more sensible than before.

Just when Li Zhongyi hugged Caijiao and planned to make love, Li Yunxiao suddenly reported a news: shortly after noon, Chai Yuniang arrived at the county mansion, and she refused to leave.

Li Zhongyi's face showed a mysterious smile, he had already predicted that Princess Chai would come to the door today.

It is precisely because of this that Li Zhongyi deliberately wanted to go to the Kaifeng Mansion to "work", the purpose was very clear, and he couldn't let Chai Yuniang have too much fun.

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Today's code is 12,000, making up for yesterday's 3,000, and the 9,000 update has actually been completed. Sikong's thoughts are like springs, but it's a pity that his hands are really sore, his waist hurts, and he can't write 15,000 words.

Thanks to the brothers' support for the monthly pass, Sikong will continue to update at least 9,000 words tomorrow (make up one more, and add two chapters normally). If tomorrow's monthly pass can continue to exceed 50, then, Sikong will not talk nonsense, and continue to update 12,000 words.

(To be continued......)